1982 was a Thriller! Ozzy bit the head off a bat, Grease 2* was released, Blondie, Squeeze and ABBA broke up, and Katie Dietz discovered saddle shoes.

My anglophile tendencies began in the wee hours of July 29, 1981, when my mother woke me before dawn to watch the Royal Wedding and enjoy a celebratory tea party.

1980 - We lost Hitchcock, The Empire struck back, Someone shot J.R., we put an actor in the White House, Mount St Helens blew her top, and Theodore Dietz was born. None of us were ever the same.

Ring My Bell may have been at #1 on the charts in 1979, but all I wanted to listen to was The Gambler LP! 

I arrived in the midst of a heat wave, so of course my first winter included a blizzard.

In general, I was the perfect baby, but of course I had the perfect mother!